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noun

Correction n.

1.

The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. "The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices."

2.

The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. "Correction and instruction must both work Ere this rude beast will profit."

3.

That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.

4.

Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.

5.

An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.

Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares.

House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.

Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.

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"Correction" Quotes from Famous Books

... sworn to his wife, never to take any more notice of me.' He left me; but, instantly returning, he told me that he should speak to his friend, a parish-officer, to get a nurse for the brat I laid to him; and advised me, if I wished to keep out of the house of correction, not to make ...

— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft

... Usually in young women there is some difficulty with the ovarian or uterine circulation, and the attack of hemorrhage from the nose is reflex in its character, appearing just before or at the time of the menstrual flow, accompanied with troublesome headache. The correction of this form is by the use of the "Favorite Prescription" and "Golden Medical Discovery," using of each a teaspoonful three times a day, taking the "Prescription" before meals and the "Discovery" after meals. If the ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... by the advantages of solitude, might influence your destiny to far greater advantage than you influence it for yourself. But it is useless to discuss the question. I am, as you say, at a disadvantage. These little instruments of correction, these gentle aids to the power and honour of families, these slight favours that might so incommode you, are only to be obtained now by interest and importunity. They are sought by so many, and they are granted (comparatively) to so few! It used not to be so, but France in all such ...

— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens

... to which we were exposed, certainly the most acute was that inflicted by this leathern instrument, about two fingers wide, applied to our poor little hands with all the strength and all the fury of the administrator. To endure this classical form of correction, the victim knelt in the middle of the room. He had to leave his form and go to kneel down near the master's desk under the curious and generally merciless eyes of his fellows. To sensitive natures these preliminaries were an introductory torture, like the journey from the Palais de Justice ...

— Louis Lambert • Honore de Balzac

... of the Auburn (American) prison, the Middlesex magistrates, in their judicial wisdom, have adopted an entirely opposite system; by imposing an awful silence in their house of correction. This penance must press sorely on the criminals of the softer sex, to whom tea and conversation (errors excepted) constitute the principal comforts of life. CATULLUS seems to allude to this infernal art of exasperating the ...

— On the Nature of Thought - or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence • John Haslam

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